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[MetalSlimeHunt]

100%, but you're only half right. They're not Eldar. They're Dark Eldar. Who else has the ability to project a radically different appearance?

Tau civilization is actually the single longest and most complex Death Performance ever pulled off by a kabal.

[Taricus]

Can't, they aren't. Though the dark eldar doing it? Well given Kot's reactions to the tau I can believe it, especially since they've taken in the greater good themselves

As for ethereals getting into melee, given that they're more there as leadership, them getting into combat, melee or otherwise is something that tends to be avoided what with their death usually leading the others to run around like headless chickens. The honor blades are more symbols of office than something actually meant for combat (Not that they can't be used for it though.)

[Egan_BW]

100%, but you're only half right. They're not Eldar. They're Dark Eldar. Who else has the ability to project a radically different appearance?

Tau civilization is actually the single longest and most complex Death Performance ever pulled off by a kabal.

Dark Eldar are Eldar. It's in the freakin name.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

If you ran into a group of humans who looked normal, but could survive without food, water, or air so long as they could make someone else die in their place, and were addicted to this process, and actually didn't look normal but more like walking desiccated corpses who projected a normal appearance into your mind, and also will die if not allowed torture for long enough, and universally had a psychology that in normal human terms would be extreme antisocial disorder at their best, would you really consider them humans?

[Neonivek]

If you ran into a group of humans who looked normal, but could survive without food, water, or air so long as they could make someone else die in their place, and were addicted to this process, and actually didn't look normal but more like walking desiccated corpses who projected a normal appearance into your mind, and also will die if not allowed torture for long enough, and universally had a psychology that in normal human terms would be extreme antisocial disorder at their best, would you really consider them humans?

Donald Trump isn't THAT hideous.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

If you ran into a group of humans who looked normal, but could survive without food, water, or air so long as they could make someone else die in their place, and were addicted to this process, and actually didn't look normal but more like walking desiccated corpses who projected a normal appearance into your mind, and also will die if not allowed torture for long enough, and universally had a psychology that in normal human terms would be extreme antisocial disorder at their best, would you really consider them humans?

Donald Trump isn't THAT hideous.

Tem outta Tem, post of the year.

[Neonivek]

Also... less politically

That is the EXACT description of the Imperium Emperor.

[TempAcc]

Tbh 'murica hasn't had a somewhat human looking presidential candidate in a few decades.

[Egan_BW]

If you ran into a group of humans who looked normal, but could survive without food, water, or air so long as they could make someone else die in their place, and were addicted to this process, and actually didn't look normal but more like walking desiccated corpses who projected a normal appearance into your mind, and also will die if not allowed torture for long enough, and universally had a psychology that in normal human terms would be extreme antisocial disorder at their best, would you really consider them humans?

Yeah? What else would they be? Human undead are still human, as opposed to elven undead.

[LordBaal]

Tbh 'murica hasn't had a somewhat human looking presidential candidate in a few decades.

Obama looked like an average human at the beginning, now he looks like he aged 50 years in the last 8.

[sprinkled chariot]

Eh, it is implied that every Ark Mechanicus (at least the old ones) is like that to some extent, so there is at least two of them.
And no, they weren't made by C'Tan or Void Dragon, since they're actually the thing Mechanicus are looking for - complete, self-updating STCs in ship form. They represent the peak of Human technology, which really looks like it was way more advanced than even Old Ones/Necron stuff.

EDIT:
I just noticed I haven't actually posted this:

Well... outside sheer numbers Star Trek has a higher level of technology, weaponry, and shields.

Warhammer isn't so much "Overpowered" as it is vast and "EXTREME"

As for Imperium, sure, Star Trek proably has better tech (except for weaponry, I am not exactly sure). As for others... I am convinced that Necrons would genocide Star Trek and cackle mechanically whille doing so.

And while I have no actual idea what Rifts, but it sounds like it fucks any suspense of disbelief sideways.

It has more to do that the technology in Rifts has advanced to the point where things have started to sort of break down. A ordinary pistol in Rifts could take down aircraft carriers in 1 maybe 2 shots.

I am pretty sure that no technology is or ever will be possible that allows to take down an aircraft carrier that fits in a pistol-sized package. It can't even be rationally handwaved, really, unless said pistol is just a remote detonator for ridiculous amounts of explosives inside the carrier or something.

Gravity pistol( as the carrier size will make things actually worse for the carrier)
Also that archeotech kind of pistols, which uses subatomic munitions.

[Neonivek]

I am pretty sure that no technology is or ever will be possible that allows to take down an aircraft carrier that fits in a pistol-sized package. It can't even be rationally handwaved, really, unless said pistol is just a remote detonator for ridiculous amounts of explosives inside the carrier or something.

There are a few fictional examples... Though the ones I am thinking of it isn't that the pistol is amazing so much that it is the ammo.

Such as the pistol that fires basically black hole slugs.

Though... A Anti-matter bullet fired from a pistol would easily be able to destroy the entire aircraft carrier.

[Kot]

Gravity pistol( as the carrier size will make things actually worse for the carrier)
Also that archeotech kind of pistols, which uses subatomic munitions.

Eh, not really. Grav-weaponry in WH40k still has limitations (you cannot, in fact, crush a whole aircraft carrier with one) and Volkite weaponry (if that is what you mean) is somehow similar to Meltas, but longer range, it mostly just makes people burt into flames and melts armour, so one shoot is not really going to do shit.

As for Tau and melee, there are few points.
First of all, Tau are in fact, in general, weaker psychically and have slower reaction speed than humans and Fire Warriors only overcome it by rigurous training and thanks to thousands of years of eugenics. So, Fire Warrior is an equivalent of a human Guardsman, which... isin't really that big achievment for a human. Humans can still be much, much stronger, while Fire Warriors are on their peak and yet they might have slightly worse reflexes.
Their eyesight is generally good but their pupils do not dilate, giving poorer depth perception and it takes them longer time to focus, so they automatically basically can't see shit in close combat. The high-tech super helmets do not really help, because they make all the downsides more down, though they do let them be better at range, which is... not bad, for a Tau.
Tau do not really have melee weaponry. Before Ethereals came they fought each other with melee and proably some kinds of bows, so they now think they're barbaric and a reminder of their violent (Tau were RIDICULOUSLY hostile fucks back then, possibly on par with Orks, even) past. And when they do, they're mostly ritual weapons - the bonding knives the squad leaders have are technically working weapons but using them in close combat with enemy and risking breaking it is... putting the honour of not only the leader in question but the whole squad at stake, which is something unthinkable for them. The Ethereals are obviously extempt because, while they do not really fight at all (the one time they did they all died and we got Farsight Enclaves), Tau are mind-boggling hypocrites who will accept anything they normally disagree with as long as the Ethereals do it.

Rollpgeek Theorm, which states that the Ethereals are exempt not because of their status but because of the artistic grace and skill of honor blade combat.

This.

I cannot stop laughing condescendingly.

Hey, Could someone give me odds that Ethereals are literally Eldar in fancy disguises?

Low. Very low. Lower than the odds that Ethereals are actually Necrontyr in fancy disguises.

Such as the pistol that fires basically black hole slugs.

Good luck packing an effective black-hole containment field into slugs that fit inside a pistol.
And fuck, you want to destroy the aircraft carrier, not reality in the dozen of kilometers around.

[Loud Whispers]

If you ran into a group of humans who looked normal, but could survive without food, water, or air so long as they could make someone else die in their place, and were addicted to this process, and actually didn't look normal but more like walking desiccated corpses who projected a normal appearance into your mind, and also will die if not allowed torture for long enough, and universally had a psychology that in normal human terms would be extreme antisocial disorder at their best, would you really consider them humans?

Donald Trump isn't THAT hideous.

Tem outta Tem, post of the year.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Kot]

But that guy is Rogal Dorn at best (Dorn wielded a sword, didin't he?) and just some Imperial Fists captain at worst, so...
I do, however, know one certain Anatolian political figure which could be God Emperor in disguise...

Spoiler: FOR THE EMPEROR (click to show/hide)